Star of Stone (Century Quartet, Book 2)

Star of Stone (Century Quartet, Book 2)

Pierdomenico Baccalario

within the moment installment of the Century Quartet, Italian writer P. D. Baccalario keeps the secret that may take 4 towns and 4 impressive teenagers to solve.

Four young ones. A wood best. and 4 postcards with mystery instructions.

New York urban, March 15
Another mysterious artifact reunites Harvey from big apple, Elettra from Rome, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai of their try to store the realm. once they meet those who knew Alfred Van Der Berger, the murdered professor who despatched them on their quest in Rome, they become aware of that the problem is much from over. And once they find a sequence of 4 postcards written in code years in the past by means of the professor himself, their future turns into even clearer.

The playing cards ship the youngsters everywhere big apple urban, via previous libraries and deserted tunnels, looking for the megastar of Stone, an historical item essentially hooked up to the earth. yet a brand new set of villains, predators of long island nightlife, will do whatever to forestall them....

satan repeats, as though it have been a pressure for him to utter every one notice, “then your women can intervene.” Twelve days is decades. Twelve iciness nights is even longer. yet that’s how lengthy Jacob Mahler has stayed completely nonetheless within the woods. He’s sucked up the final lines of snow. He’s eaten chestnuts. uncooked mushrooms. Roots. virtually with out ever relocating. His maximum enemies were the chilly and his damaged arm. the single option to defeat them is to forestall considering, to stick there, as immobile as a.

And reads the commitment written at the again of it. “ ‘To Paul, Alfred and Robert’ … have you heard of those males, Paul and Robert?” Agatha shakes her head a moment time. “Do you occur to grasp while this photo used to be taken?” “Thirty years in the past? Fifty? Alfred already had it after we met. He used it as a bookmark until eventually he made up our minds to have it framed.” “So you didn’t positioned the piece of fabric in there?” Elettra insists. “No! Why might i've got performed that?” “Which means,” Sheng whispers to Harvey,.

Beale cryptograms. They include directions for locating a treasure, and now, over 100 years later, now not them all were solved yet.” “Then it’s guaranteed to be a cryptogram,” Harvey comments pessimistically. “We’ve purely obtained 5 days to unravel it. After that, we’re leaving,” Mistral reminds them. “If this cryptogram should be solved, that is.” “A cryptogram is either completely uncomplicated and completely most unlikely to solve,” Ermete explains. “The in simple terms technique to decipher it really is to find what textual content.

Window. he is taking a number of steps into the room, reaches its basically door and walks via it. the instant the door closes, the air-conditioning method starts off to sterilize the room to dispose of each final germ. the fellow walks down a hallway. “Century tells us the place we got here from and the place we’re going. And for the way for much longer …” The hallway is sort of 200 yards lengthy. It has neither doorways nor lighting fixtures. Tall and slender, the partitions are coated with drawings and writings in infantile pink scrawled.